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About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL

There must be an issue with this model .Over the last few months I have repaired at least 10 of the 4000 series washers and whirlpool has replaced an additional 2 because they could not supply parts in a timely manner .All were between 6-8 months old and all needed a rear tub and wash basket .These machines were German built as apposed to Mexican and they all roared terribly . I'm sure whirlpool knows they have an issue .

Yep that's a bad bearing. Should be under warranty if it's only 8 months old. We have had a bunch of of tub replacements with maytag/whirlpool. Some we've had to do twice within just a few months of the first repair. I have not heard of any issue from the factory, but they have to know something is up with such a high number of bearing failures.....